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Léa Marpeaux, Claire Baudouin, Gregory Emery @emery-lab.bsky.social and colleagues @umontreal.ca identify an apical supracellular actin network in epithelial cells that acts as a long-range force transmission device.

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Great journal, great philosophy ❤️❤️❤️

bioRxiv continues to grow – a brief spike and lag in the pandemic (details of which are included) but a steady increase in submissions since then. % revisions, license choice, etc. all fairly constant. 0.1% withdrawal rate is comparable to journal retraction rates 2/n

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Deadline 31st March

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Have you produced beautiful images as part of your cell biology research?

Then enter our image competition!

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Deadline 31st March

Check out last year's winner 'Brainbow' by Alvaro Castano

Are we having fun yet? Hey there! Yes, it's your old pal, Mole (emphasis on the old). It's a cold and blustery day, and I'm taking a little time off to have this chat with you, because, well, it's been a while. I hope you'r...

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Send us your stem cell manuscripts! Very easy to transfer from biorxiv and we can also quickly consider a manuscript based on reviews received elsewhere. JCS does a tremendous job of supporting the scientific community (see the link below). Reach out if you have questions!

📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢

We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline.

Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city

Details here:
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Are you working on stem cell biology? Our Academic Editor Aryeh Warmflash (@warmflashlab.bsky.social) is committed to handling articles on this topic so send your article our way.

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We are grateful to @jcellsci.bsky.social for providing the opportunity to express our views on this matter and for the smooth handling of our correspondence piece. (11/12)

I guess this should be how science moves forward. In the end, nobody is certain about the root position at the moment. I like to thank @jcellsci.bsky.social for giving me an opportunity to respond to their comments and for publishing both articles open access. 11/n

The LECA had a conventional kinetochore and the kinetoplastid kinetochore is a derived feature – a critical evaluation of Akiyoshi, 2025 Summary:Akiyoshi, 2025 presented a hypothesis with implications for the early evolution of eukaryotes and eukaryotic cell division machinery. In this Correspondence, the authors conclude that this hyp...

Recently, a Hypothesis was posed in @jcellsci.bsky.social in which the root of eukaryotes was placed between kinetoplastids and all other eukaryotes. From this, it was implied that LECA did not have a kinetochore. We argue this is highly unlikely. A 🧵(1/12)

Read our reply here: tinyurl.com/n87myhpr

I appreciate the comments by Max Raas, Eelco Tromer and others on my paper published last year "Hypothesis that ancestral eukaryotes sexually proliferated without kinetochores or mitosis". However, I do not think their critiques can reject my hypothesis. For details, please read the paper. 1/n

Only a few spots left for this amazing meeting! Just sign up and join us to discuss all #cellbio #imaging things!

The abstract submission deadline for our upcoming 'Imaging Cell Dynamics' meeting is this Friday. We still have a few places remaining so apply now to secure your spot!

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Special Issue Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics Guest Editors: Francesca Bottanelli and Giulia Zanetti Deadline: 1 April 2026 Journal of Cell Science Call for papers logo Image of a cell

We invite you to submit your latest research to our upcoming special issue - Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. This issue will be coordinated by @franbottanelli.bsky.social and Giulia Zanetti, alongside our Editor @guijacquemet.bsky.social.
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After 15 years as Editor-in-chief (EiC), Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social will be stepping down at the end of 2026 & we are seeking feedback from the cell biology community as part of the consultation process for appointing a new EiC.
We'd love to hear from you: www.surveymonkey.com/r/GZCC9F9

We are hiring!

Please REPOST (“likes” don’t help in diffusion!) and consider applying: we work in such a fantastic context, we ask so interesting questions, and we have such a collegial and best-willing atmosphere… CRBM = Happy & Good Science

Also, thank you @jcellsci.bsky.social for featuring the article and also our first author, @owfpuls.bsky.social:
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🧪 We are excited to share this novel open access paper on Phasor Mixing Coefficient to analyze colocalization, developed by folks @i2janelia.bsky.social and @aicjanelia.bsky.social. This is also the first technical paper jointly published with our sister imaging center @malacridalab.bsky.social!

Work for us Working for us We’re always looking for talented and motivated people to work as part of our close-knit team. Roles range from editorial to production, marketing to event co-ordination, HR to accounts...

We're hiring! JCS is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves cell biology and wants to stay connected with the field (and be part of an organisation that believes in supporting the community).
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JCS cover. The cover image is an expansion microscopy image of a Chromera velia flagellate labelled with anti-tubulin antibodies (cyan)

Issue 1 is complete

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On the cover: an expansion microscopy image of a Chromera velia flagellate labelled with anti-tubulin antibodies (cyan). See article by Tengganu & Hu.
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Courses and Conferences of EMBL2026

Our journals Development, Journal of Cell Science, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open are pleased to be media partners for a number of @embo.org and @embl.org conferences, workshops and courses during 2026. See the full calendar of events at www.embl.org/about/info/c....

Institut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!

Microscopy preprints – applications in biology - FocalPlane Microscopy preprints – applications in biology - News

Our #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane. This week we are highlighting the latest research using microscopy to answer questions in biology, including preprints on #cellbio, #devbio, #neurobio, #virology and #microbio. Let us know if you have any recommendations for preprints to add to our list.

These are one of the many ways @biologists.bsky.social and its flagship journals support our community. Take advantage of them and then consider publishing with there, rather than in the fifth step-down journal of the robber barons

Our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026.
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We are delighted to announce that @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @ucllifesciences.bsky.social has been awarded the 2026 BSCB Postdoctoral researcher medal

You can read about Giulia's work on how tissues withstand mechanical stress here:

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